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Welcome to Top Gear magazine"s Speed Week. The 14 best performance cars in the world have descended upon a mildly terrifying Seventies-spec F1 circuit, for several days. There will be enthusiastic driving", there will be a well-stocked tyre truck close to hand and there will be industrial quantities of home-made sandwiches. Here"s a teaser from the track, as we pit the Dallara Stradale against the Lotus Exige Cup 430 against Alpine"s A110 "These are the best cars here. Of course they are. They"re focused lightweights, and if you"re going to drive on track especially a track as endlessly testing as Circuit de Charade you ought to be in a car designed precisely for the job. Not a plush supercar that"s had stuff removed (a backwards route to lightweight) and certainly not a big tractor with a V8 in it (just backwards, full stop). "But for cars with a shared ethos, this isn"t half a diverse bunch. From a Renault with an automatic gearbox to a carbon-fibre bathtub with a park bench on its rear deck via the lairiest Lotus yet and a 150,000 gap they represent three quite different approaches to lightweighting.
Date written: 17 Oct 2018
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ID: 13723
Welcome to Top Gear magazine"s Speed Week. The 14 best performance cars in the world have descended upon a mildly terrifying Seventies-spec F1 circuit, for several days. There will be enthusiastic driving", there will be a well-stocked tyre truck close to hand and there will be industrial quantities of home-made sandwiches. Here"s a teaser from the track, as we pit the Dallara Stradale against the Lotus Exige Cup 430 against Alpine"s A110 "These are the best cars here. Of course they are. They"re focused lightweights, and if you"re going to drive on track especially a track as endlessly testing as Circuit de Charade you ought to be in a car designed precisely for the job. Not a plush supercar that"s had stuff removed (a backwards route to lightweight) and certainly not a big tractor with a V8 in it (just backwards, full stop). "But for cars with a shared ethos, this isn"t half a diverse bunch. From a Renault with an automatic gearbox to a carbon-fibre bathtub with a park bench on its rear deck via the lairiest Lotus yet and a 150,000 gap they represent three quite different approaches to lightweighting.
Date written: 17 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13723
